[maemo-developers] [pymaemo] How to add PyModule_AddObject to the override file?

[From: Anderson Lizardo]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Andrea Grandi<a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/7/29 Anderson Lizardo <anderson.lizardo at openbossa.org>:
>> When using codegen, you will almost create new types by yourself. You
>> need to either (a) fix codegen to parse correctly some missing type
>> that was in a public header or (b) write custom defs entries in
>> mafw-extras.defs.
>
> I'll try to use option (b) of course, but.... I cannot find any
> existing example in defs/ folder about structure: I can find
> define-function, define-method, define-object but not "define-struct".

It seems that MafwPluginDescriptorPublic is not a gobject subclass :(,
so I think only (b) is possible actually.

>
> Do you know where I can find an existing structure defined? So I can
> take it as example...

define-object is the most similar to structs. They create Python types
(which, as you might now, are just classes as anything in Python).

One thing I noticed is that (again) MAFW is taking a different path
from most gobject based libraries: _MafwPluginDescriptor and
_MafwPluginDescriptorPublic are not GObjects :(. In that case, I think
you will have to pretend they are so, making something like:

(define-object PluginDescriptorPublic
  (in-module "Mafw")
  (parent "GObject")
  (c-name "MafwPluginDescriptorPublic")
  (gtype-id "MAFW_TYPE_PLUGIN_DESCRIPTOR_PUBLIC")
)

(I didn't test any of it; probably some compilation errors will occur,
try to play with it a little and see if you can figure out why the
errors occur, this way you will have a better understanding of things)

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
OpenBossa Labs - INdT
Manaus - Brazil